Metadata was added on late in ledgers history. Putting it in the comments seemed less disruptive. May it's time to revisit that.
On Saturday, July 12, 2014, Martin Blais <bl...@furius.ca> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Jules van Velzen < > julesvanvel...@gmail.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','julesvanvel...@gmail.com');>> wrote: > >> The reason why I can not (or better: will not) use narration (or payee or >> description) for this is, as far as I can see, because it is a single line >> only. Besides that, the payee field can be explicitly queried by using the >> at shortcut (@) so I consider that a field which is in my control >> (=explicit/consent) and use it to identify edge cases. However, to give an >> explicit example: >> >> 2013-12-18 ZAAK >> Crediteur:TMobile 15,26 EUR >> Bank:AbnAmro -15,26 EUR >> ; SEPA Incasso algemeen doorlopend >> ; Incassant: NL93ZZZ33265679XXXX >> ; Naam: T-Mobile Netherlands BV >> ; Machtiging: 1.13567XXX >> ; Omschrijving: Factuurnummer 9012 >> ; 05477XXX >> ; IBAN: NL12COBA0733959XXX >> ; Kenmerk: 501205939XXX >> > > Are you able to extract all of this information from a downloadable file? > If so, I wish my bank did this. I get almost nothing: a one-liner > semi-cryptic "memo". > Or are you slightly OCD and add all of this information manually for every > bill, even a less than 20 EUR bill? > > > > The comment implies a complete description for a transaction as downloaded >> from my bankstatements. >> > > I see in the manual that Ledger calls these "comments" but they're > attached to the transaction somehow. > I would not call this "a comment": in most computer languages a comment is > ignored by the parser. > These "Ledger comments" sound more like metadata than comments. > > > >> Maybe I could put it on one line but that deteriorates its readability. I >> have tried to use a different comment-character like # or | but that works >> only for one line. [ >> http://www.ledger-cli.org/3.0/doc/ledger3.html#Commenting-on-your-Journal >> ]. The reason I asked is because I might be overlooking something. Of >> course it is fun to see that the bank or any person could help me tag my >> transactions through the description field, though ... rather not. >> > > I don't understand what this means. You seem to have a lot of info you can > use in your import script. > > > >> >> For now, I settle by transforming the : (ascii colon) to : (unicode ratio >> symbol) by generating comments from statements. >> > > What precisely do you mean by "settle"? > > > > > > > >> >> Thanks all for the input! >> >> On Saturday, July 12, 2014 12:00:57 AM UTC+2, Martin Blais wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Jules van Velzen <julesva...@gmail.com >>> > wrote: >>> >>>> One of the parts of completing my/a bookkeeping is to import bank >>>> statements into ledger where each transaction has a description. >>>> While the following problem does not happen often, the description >>>> might have colons (:) and thus conflicts with the way tags work in >>>> Ledger-Cli. >>>> A minimal requirement to see if everything went ok is to visually >>>> inspect the descriptions with the print command. >>>> A description has the length of a sms and might imply multiple lines. >>>> Of course it is possible to substitute the colon with something else, >>>> however I would like the description (transaction comment) to be as >>>> authentic as possible. >>>> Is there a way to have real comments? In other words, a comment where >>>> implicit meta-data like tags is not active? >>>> >>> >>> Can you not use the narration for this? >>> >>> -- >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ledger" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com >> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ledger-cli%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ledger" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','ledger-cli%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com');> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Craig, Corona De Tucson, AZ enderw88.wordpress.com -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ledger-cli+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
